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Turse: Weaponizing the Pentagon's Cyborg Insects
Znet Article, March, 30 2008
Nick Turse
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Biological weapons delivered by cyborg insects. It sounds like a nightmare scenario straight out of the wilder realms of science fiction, but it could be a reality, if a current Pentagon project comes to fruition.
Turse: The Golden Age of the Military-Entertainment Complex
Znet Article, March, 20 2008
Nick Turse
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Spread via the Internet (before becoming a board game and a book), Six Degrees has taken its place in America's pop culture pantheon among favorite late-night drunken pursuits. Here is a new variant of the game: The goal is to connect Kevin Bacon ...
Turse: Two Men, Two Legs, and Too Much Suffering
Znet Article, January, 26 2008
Nick Turse
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Forgotten victims from the U.S. war in Vietnam.
Turse: A Tomdispatch Holiday One-Stop Shop from Hell
Znet Article, December, 17 2007
Nick Turse
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It's that time of year, again. Time to wander the web searching for Holiday gifts for all those hard-to-buy-for folks, the usual cast of characters who make the holidays especially nerve-wracking. Well, have no fear and wander no more. This year T...
Turse: Slum Fights
Znet Article, October, 11 2007
Nick Turse
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Duane Schattle doesn't mince words. "The cities are the problem," he says. A retired Marine infantry lieutenant colonel who worked on urban warfare issues at the Pentagon in the late 1990s, he now serves as director of the Joint Urban Operations O...
Turse: NYC, the NYPD, the RNC, and Me
Znet Article, September, 30 2007
Nick Turse
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NYC, the NYPD, the RNC, and Me
Turse: Planet Pentagon
Znet Article, July, 12 2007
Nick Turse
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Recently, the Wall Street Journal reported on a proposal, championed by Defense Secretary Robert Gates, to reduce the number of U.S. troo...
Turse: Did the U.S. Lie about Cluster Bomb Use in Iraq?
Znet Article, May, 25 2007
Nick Turse
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Did the U.S. Lie about Cluster Bomb Use in Iraq?
Turse: Bombs over Baghdad
Znet Article, February, 07 2007
Nick Turse
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A secret air war is being waged in Iraq -- often in and around that country's population centers -- about which we can find out little. The U.S. military keeps information on the munitions expended in its air efforts under tight wraps, refusing to...
Turse: Baghdad 2025
Znet Article, January, 07 2007
Nick Turse
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So you think that American troops, fighting in the urban maze of Baghdad's huge Shiite slum, Sadr City, add up to nothing more than a horrible mistake, an unexpected fiasco? The Pentagon begs to differ. For years now, U.S. war planners have believ...
Turse: American Prison Planet
Znet Article, November, 02 2006
Nick Turse
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Today, the United States presides over a burgeoning empire -- not only the "empire of bases" first described by Chalmers Johnson, but a far-flung new network of maximum security penitentiari...
Turse: The Militarization of MySpace
Znet Article, October, 02 2006
Nick Turse
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The Militarization of MySpace
Turse: Civilian Killings Went Unpunished
Znet Article, August, 25 2006
Nick Turse
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Civilian Killings Went Unpunished
Turse: The Bureaucracy Strikes Back
Znet Article, February, 13 2006
Nick Turse
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In the first installment of this series, I offered 42 names to begin what now seems an endless -- and ever-growing -- list of top officials as well as beleaguere...
Turse: Rollback to 1214 AD
Znet Article, January, 07 2006
Nick Turse
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[Introduction by Tom Engelhardt: What we we...
Turse: Bush's Burgeoning Body Count
Znet Article, November, 28 2005
Nick Turse
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Bush's Burgeoning Body Count
Turse: Get a Clue
Znet Article, November, 08 2005
Nick Turse
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On November 2, 2005, I found myself in a familiar situation -- at a protest. This time, it was the New York version of the World Can't Wait nationwide protest on the first annivers...
Turse: The Fallen Legion
Znet Article, October, 14 2005
Nick Turse
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The Fallen Legion
Turse: Patriotic Pork
Znet Article, August, 31 2005
Nick Turse
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When you think of food and the U.S. Army, what do you picture? Long chow lines with a grunt serving up chipped beef on toast (aka "shit on a shingle")? A lowly private peeling potatoes on KP duty? Unidentifiable slop in a mess hall? Semi-inedible ...
